By: Ozh
Setting up a comparative test between 3 CMS and issuing a draw for all 3 is a total non event I say. It really screams “oh shoot, after all we’ve done all this for nothing as we can’t really judge”
View ArticleBy: Brad
This is the most interesting stat to me: Lines of custom PHP/JS code Joomla! – 30 Drupal – 220 WordPress – 1,808 Kind of demonstrates how Drupal and Joomla can do a bit more from the web console than...
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@<a href="#comment-542" rel="nofollow">Brad</a> - Hah hah.. that's why Ma.tt is optimizing the "bazillion" lines of code. They should count themselves lucky that only needed 1,808 instead...
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The number of lines of custom code on the WordPress site was largely due to the custom installer that the team wrote to allow someone to install the entire package as quickly and easily as it is for...
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I was in the audience at the SxSW panel, and when I saw the video of the testing session (Marybeth, told to test all three in a row with the instruction that she couldn’t eat lunch until she finished),...
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@<a href="#comment-538" rel="reply" rel="nofollow">iRonnie</a> - That may be the case, but without totally dumbing things down to the point where you lose functionality over simplicity,...
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I get that the custom installer was the majority of custom code for WordPress, but remember Drupal has this feature (installer profiles) built in so my point is still valid. I’m not sure about Joomla...
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@Jane Wells – Marybeth tested the site using all of the logins provided by the WordPress team, including both subscriber and administrator. While I believe that Marybeth was logged in as a subscriber...
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@<a href="#comment-568" rel="reply" rel="nofollow">George DeMet</a> - Geroge, Definitely keep me posted on further updates on not only this challenge, but of the results from April.
View ArticleBy: Stuart Duff
Marybeth Schroeder should give up her day job if she had problems with the WordPress administration UI, compared to Drupal and Joomla the WordPress UI is the cleanest and most intuitive out of them...
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i understand marybeth. there is a lot of things going on inside the wp dashboard. a good thing for seasoned users but might be a nightmare for inexperienced clients. people who hire developers are only...
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In the past we’d spent probably 10-15 percent of the time or budget modifying the back end of whatever CMS (WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine etc) we were using so the client could understand it....
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i understand marybeth. there is a lot of things going on inside the wp dashboard. a good thing for seasoned users but might be a nightmare for inexperienced clients. people who hire developers are only...
View ArticleBy: kel
In the past we’d spent probably 10-15 percent of the time or budget modifying the back end of whatever CMS (WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine etc) we were using so the client could understand it....
View ArticleBy: Ozh
Setting up a comparative test between 3 CMS and issuing a draw for all 3 is a total non event I say. It really screams “oh shoot, after all we’ve done all this for nothing as we can’t really judge”Report
View ArticleBy: Brad
This is the most interesting stat to me: Lines of custom PHP/JS code Joomla! – 30 Drupal – 220 WordPress – 1,808 Kind of demonstrates how Drupal and Joomla can do a bit more from the web console than...
View ArticleBy: Kel
@Brad – Hah hah.. that’s why Ma.tt is optimizing the “bazillion” lines of code. They should count themselves lucky that only needed 1,808 instead of the full bazillion.Report
View ArticleBy: George DeMet
The number of lines of custom code on the WordPress site was largely due to the custom installer that the team wrote to allow someone to install the entire package as quickly and easily as it is for...
View ArticleBy: Jane Wells
I was in the audience at the SxSW panel, and when I saw the video of the testing session (Marybeth, told to test all three in a row with the instruction that she couldn’t eat lunch until she finished),...
View ArticleBy: Jeffro
@iRonnie – That may be the case, but without totally dumbing things down to the point where you lose functionality over simplicity, where do you draw the line? Unless you provide a simple manual to...
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